Passover Seder plate ("Tzinia DiPisach" – "Passover Tray"). Morocco, [1953].
Beaten and engraved copper.
Features various adornments in center of dish: doves holding postage envelopes, flowers, Stars of David with the word Zion, a Torah crown, Tablets of Law with the inscription "Two Tablets" and flags of the State of Israel. "Three matzot" is inscribed at the top, at the bottom "Chazit Kiara"; and on the edges "Mo'adim Le'Simcha, Chagim U'Zmanim Le'Sasson, Next Year in Jerusalem, Free People" and the year the dish was produced: 5713 – 1953. The dish symbols are arranged according to the custom of the Ari.
Diameter : 48.5 cm.
See: "From Morocco to Shlomi, Remnants of a Material Culture", by Yedida Calphon-Stillman (The Society of Research of Useful Science – Haifa University, 1982), Photograph no. 23.